Manufacturing Engineer

Vida Group International; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Vida Group International seeks an experienced engineering leader to prioritize team activities, mentor engineers, and drive successful project delivery. You will manage customer relationships, coordinate APQP processes, and guide product development strategies across multiple initiatives.

The role emphasizes setting objectives, performance reviews, and continuous improvement within a fast-paced environment, with strong collaboration across teams and customers.

Qualifications

• Minimum ten years of relevant engineering experience.
• Leadership experience in engineering, product development or product commercialization.
• Customer-facing experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize team activities and drive projects to meet timelines.
• Develop team members with objectives, development plans and reviews.
• Support and manage projects via APQP, coordinating customer deadlines.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with customers and their engineering teams.
• Create project schedules and milestone tracking to ensure successful completion.
• Drive continuous improvement of product development processes.
• Provide guidance on technical/product strategies based on VOC and initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Customer focus

Strategic thinking

Teamwork

Engineering knowledge

Education

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering

Tools

Creo/CATIA/NX

Teamcenter

APQP

Job description

They are responsible for prioritizing team activities, developing team members, and identifying and communicating team resource needs. Additionally, they are responsible for development of customer engineering relationships, project management, field engineering support and promotion of Corporate client technical/product solutions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prioritize team member activities and drive projects to be completed within project timelines.
• Responsible for development and performance of team of technical personnel. This includes setting objectives, development plans, and delivering performance reviews.
• Support and manage projects (product development or other) with responsibility for setting priorities, meeting customer deadlines and coordinating required activities via the APQP process
• Accountable for building and maintaining strong relationships with our customers and their engineering teams
• Create and maintain project schedule and milestone tracking to drive projects to successful completion ensuring accountability amongst all key stakeholders
• Create project justifications and ensure target financial goals are achieved
• Facilitate decision making and/or selection of products, components, or specific product development projects
• Drive for continuous improvement of Corporate client product development processes and Corporate client products
• Provide guidance for technical/product strategies and manage the execution of those strategies based on voice of customer feedback (VOC) and Corporate client technical/product strategic initiatives
• Lead investigations and manage response to field performance issues and contribute to corrective action plans for key engineering issues
• Other duties may be assigned

Education and Experience:

Required experience:

• Bachelors of Science in Mechanical, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering from an accredited college or university
• Minimum ten years’ experience in relevant field
• Experience in a leadership role in engineering, product development and/or product commercialization and experience in a customer facing role

Preferred experience:

• Knowledge of mechanical design principles, finite element analysis, engineering documentation, statistical analysis, and quality systems
• Experience developing and maintaining quality documentation including process flow diagrams, PFMEA’s, DFMEA’s, control plans, APQP checklists, and work instructions
• Creo/CATIA/NX
• Teamcenter
• Castings manufacturing and finishing process knowledge, understanding of plating techniques, familiarity with inspection and measurement methods
• Commercial vehicle experience, especially vehicle chassis, suspensions, and brakes a plus.

Qualifications and Competencies:

• Engineering: Possesses the knowledge and skills required to create and execute engineering diagrams, plans, and models that fulfill the product and customer requirements. This includes specific skills and knowledge for either metal or plastics depending on the function/department. Is able to produce practical and functional solutions that meet operational needs.
• Customer Focus: Builds customer confidence, is committed to increasing customer satisfaction, sets achievable customer expectations, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems, ensures commitments to customers are met, solicit opinions and ideas from customers.
• Strategic Thinking: Creates and communicates a long-term vision, balances short and long term goals, keeps own and team's work aligned with overall goals, understands the market and can predict change, understands the industry and the competition, creates and adjusts strategic plans.
• Managing for Results: Sets challenging and productive goals for team, keeps team accountable for actions, provides leadership and motivation, provides resources and support, uses checkpoints and data to track progress, sets up systems and processes to measure results.
• Execution: Getting the job done, problem solving, driving for results, exercising control; setting high goals, using measurements, accountability; tenaciously working to meet or exceed goals; continuously improving themselves and the business.
• Teamwork: Meets all team deadlines and responsibilities, listens to others and values opinions, helps team leader to meet goals, welcomes new members and promotes a team atmosphere; emphasizes cooperation and collaboration; treats coworkers like internal customers.